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R H Dolin¹, M Boles, R Dolin

¹Kaiser Permanente, National Care Management Institute, Oakland, California 90623, USA. Robert.H.Dolin@kp.org

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

|October 18, 2001

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Kaiser Permanente built a national clinical intranet using metadata to improve resource discovery. This approach combines full-text and fielded searching for precise results and consistent content organization.

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Area of Science:

Health Informatics
Information Science

Background:

Developing a national clinical intranet requires effective resource discovery.
Facilitating access to clinical information is crucial for healthcare organizations.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe the methodology for constructing Kaiser Permanente's national clinical intranet.
To detail the role of metadata in enhancing resource discovery and site organization.

Main Methods:

Implementing a metadata strategy for describing clinical resources.
Integrating full-text search with MedLine-like fielded searching capabilities.
Utilizing metadata for document indexing, search result sorting, and content structuring.

Main Results:

Achieved a combination of Internet-like full-text search and MedLine-like fielded search.
Enhanced search precision and recall for clinical resources.
Promoted overall content consistency through metadata-driven organization.

Conclusions:

Metadata is fundamental to organizing and enabling discovery on the clinical intranet.
The implemented system effectively balances broad search with specific, precise retrieval.
Ongoing research focuses on optimizing metadata utilization and exploring automatic classification.